Israel Elections

Israeli elections: New poll shows Eisenkot gain, Bennett dip, blocs frozen at 60–50

Despite shifts among individual party leaders, the overall balance between the blocs remains unchanged: 60 seats for the opposition and 50 for the coalition.

MK Gadi Eisenkot holds a press conference after announcing his resignation in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025.
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett attends a conference at the Academic College in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2026.

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 Social activist Omri Ronen joins The Democrats Party, February 16, 2026.

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US President Donald Trump poses with the signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a US-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

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The election results and what we should expect - opinion

Within a week or two, we shall be much the wiser about the makeup of Israel’s 37th government, and within several months we shall know whether the fears of what it may seek to do are justified.

 CENTRAL ELECTION Committee workers count the remaining ballots at the Knesset last week.

Grapevine November 4, 2022: Ben-Gvir – a new political star

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG with members of the Israel delegation to the UN Climate Conference.

Israel's Herzog to meet with party heads to pick MK to form gov't

Unlike similar meetings conducted by Herzog's predecessor, these consultations are expected to proceed very quickly as it is already known Benjamin Netanyahu will likely get the mandate.

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog looks on during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, in Washington, DC, on October 25, 2022.

Only a 'matter of time' until next assassination in Israel - Gantz

Defense Minister Benny Gantz went off script and lashed out at the Right's conduct during the Israeli election campaign.

 Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaksduring memorial ceremony marking the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022.

How Israel's elections will influence the US midterms - opinion

Israel has just shown the West that its citizens were more than capable of expressing themselves clearly and unambiguously. This is the message that needs to be internalized in America.

 VOTERS WAIT to cast their ballots Tuesday at a polling station in in Tel Aviv.

Deliver us from our electoral mess

If democracy is truly about noise, then the Jewish state has been nothing short of cacophonous of late and for all the wrong reasons.

 WHAT COMES next? Yair Lapid votes in March 2021.

Israel's elections in 2022 were haunted by the ghosts of 2018 - takeaways

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: At the end of the day, Israel has a lot of centrist voters, but they still don’t seem to bring home more than 35 mandates, which is around 1.2 million votes.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and colleagues attends the swearing-in ceremony of the 22nd Knesset in October 3, 2019.

Is Itamar Ben-Gvir the real winner of Israel's elections?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Activist, rabble-rouser and lawyer Itamar Ben-Gvir, is the politician who outsmarted Benjamin Netanyahu himself.

 Head of the Otzma Yehudit Party MK Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to supporters as the results of the Israeli elections are announced, at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, November 1, 2022.

Israel election results due to Bennett and Lapid's utter failure

INSIDE POLITICS: After Bennett’s prime ministerial hubris destroyed his party and brought down the coalition, Lapid’s same pride and boastfulness led his camp to what many consider its doomsday.

 PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid with Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a cabinet meeting in September.

Netanyahu won Israel's elections because of Lapid bloc's faults

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The anti-Netanyahu bloc has three people to blame: Yair Lapid, Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and Balad leader MK Sami Abou Shahadeh.

 Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu arrives with his wife Sara to cast his vote at a voting station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022, in the Israeli general elections.